Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickes: Paint It Black Edition

On this day in 1966, the Rolling Stones released the single, "Paint It Black"

Tweet of the Morning

Conway got his tail kicked in an Stillwater Holiday Inn elevator. Result of bad bet, two-fifths, a Tesla machine and a Mel Tillis prank.

— Conway ReTwitty (@hellodarlinz) May 13, 2014

Hilarious!

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• This is a good thing. Via Hank.

• Nice article on Levon Livingston although the headline says basketball recruiting.{Hank}

• This is an interesting read and one reason why I am looking for alternatives for the star system and why I like Rank By Offers. My only response to the writer would be to point out that the 2016 recruiting cycle hasn't even started officially so there is plenty of time for his nephew to get some props. {Hank}

Kentucky basketball

• Devin Booker's dad talks about next season:

  "It is going to be a great fit for him. I was proud of the decision he made and the style of play fits his style. Devin shoots the ball extremely well, so I think he can play in any system but he’s really excited to play for Kentucky," said Melvin Booker.

  We can't wait to see him in Blue and White, Mr. Booker.

Other Kentucky sports

• Matthew Mitchell gets a 2016 commitment. 6'0" guards are pretty rare in women's college basketball. Ben Roberts at NextCats has more.

• Congratulations to UK baseball's Michael Thomas for being named to the Gregg Olson Award Watch List:

  The award is named in honor of the former America League Rookie of the Year, Olson, who earned two-time All-America honors and was a first-round draft pick at Auburn, after a debut season with mixed success. Semifinalists are slated to be named, May 20 and the finalists are scheduled to be announced on June 6. The winner of the 2014 Gregg Olson Award will be named in Omaha, Neb., at the College World Series.

• Mark Stoops' success in Ohio is hurting five schools the most, and one of them is 78.2 miles west.

Links posts

• The Leach Report: Tuesday Wildcat Links

• Rush The Court: Morning Five

College football

• At Team Speed Kills, Brandon Larrabee follows up my earlier post about Jameis Winston. Consider:

  Now, it's been awhile since I was in college. Twelve years, in fact. But unless there's been an exponential increase in shoplifting since I was in college, I don't believe that walking out of a grocery story with $32 of seafood without paying for it represents "day-to-day life for the average student at Florida State."

  I'd just like to add that when I was in college (and trust me, that was a LOT longer than 12 years ago), Taco Tico or Godfather's Pizza represented haute cuisine for most of the students, especially me, and the football team as well. It would've never occurred to me to cook crab legs (or almost anything else) let alone take them out of a store without paying. I think maybe we made spaghetti a few times, perhaps a home-made hamburger or three, and a fair number of tuna salad sandwiches. Other than that, it was fast food or cafeteria food.

  Times have changed, I guess.

• When coaches become fraudsters.

College basketball

• Donnie Tyndall is trying to renew the series between the Volunteers and Memphis. I always thought that was a great series.

Other sports news

• Now, this is pretty cool. The Lakers are really a lot more dominant than I would've imagined. In fact, nobody else is even close.

• I couldn't help but laugh at this:

  Sterling doesn't know the difference between Anderson Cooper and Anderson Hunt, but he kept talking on Monday night and ultimately did the unthinkable: In the CNN news cycle, Donald Sterling has replaced the missing plane.

  If you haven't been appraised of the morbid fascination CNN has with the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, you might not get it.

  Oh, and the rest of the article is pretty good, too. And spot on.

• Seahawks coach Pete Carroll tweeted out his entire draft order with cryptic video clues before the draft. Wow, that's pretty cool. And this tweet from Carroll in response:

  Wow! He might be on to something!#SeahawksDraftClues RT @JaredStanger The Carroll Code: deciphering the twitter clues http://t.co/afYljZXNQM

  — Pete Carroll (@PeteCarroll) May 12, 2014

  Pretty clever there, Pete.

• Amazing.

  Incredible @CBSSports: "I hope this shows people that nothing is impossible..." http://t.co/HmINxAJ8ND. pic.twitter.com/2MKGgrDh3y"

  — Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) May 13, 2014

Other news

• Campus "rape tribunals" are failing:

  The Department of Education is investigating 55 schools on possible violations of female students' civil rights by mishandling sexual assault cases. Schools are accused of pushing victims not to report their crimes to police, dragging cases on for months without resolution and failing to investigate serious allegations.

  As the article says, rape investigations should be left to law enforcement. Hat tip: Instapundit

• I like this, and I'm not sure why. But it's cool: